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ROY LEE WINER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 1, 1947 – February 4, 1968
Service recordRoy Lee Winer, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 29
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Broken Bow, Oklahoma (Mccurtain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 37E, Line 29
- WAYNE ARTHUR WASHBURNLance Corporal · February 4, 1968
- PATRICK A WHITLOCKSergeant · February 4, 1968
- DONALD MORRIS WILLEYStaff Sergeant · February 4, 1968
- JOHN DAVIS WILLINGHAMSpecialist Four · February 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VAL GENE ALLARDPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 17
- ANDREW LEE DAWSONSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 20
- JAMES DZIENCILOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 21
- RICHARD EDWARD HARNER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 22
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · Panel 37E, Line 23
From Broken Bow
- MARVIN TIDWELL NOAHLance Corporal · March 24, 1967
- LARRY GLEN WILLIAMSLance Corporal · December 2, 1967
- JOHN MACK RAYSergeant · December 8, 1967
- LARRY TAYLORCorporal · July 27, 1968
- DEXTER NUNTON GAMBLE JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- LEONARD DANIEL WARDSpecialist Four · July 6, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.